[OS X TeX] Help for FontForge needed

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 31.08.2006 um 22:46 schrieb André Bellaïche:

>
> No Apple application in my computer would be able to open a DVI  
> file. I only had to use dvips from a Terminal.

A recent version of TeXShop, or TeXniscope, a dedicated "DVI  
viewer" (which actually converts via dvipdfmx to PDF), should tell  
LaunchService that they are applications to handle DVI files. Maybe a  
PreferencePane like RCDefaultApp by Carl Lindberg is needed to  
correct missing things ...

>
> "texdoc fontname" does nothing in my Terminal: no error message, no  
> action, just sending the next prompt. So I use dvips -o.

I have a specially adapted private copy of TeX's texdoc script.

>
>> So I have to correct myself: it's not dvipdfm (that's TeXniscope's  
>> convertor) but simpdftex, i.e DVI->PS via dvips and then PS->PDF  
>> via Apple's pstopdf according to my preferences setting.
>
> I don't understand this part  of your message. In fact, pdflatex  
> works well for me, so I never had the need of using altpdflatex or  
> simpdflatex. I still have to find (in this list, or on the web)  
> what they are used for.

First I made a mistake by claiming that TeXShop was using the same  
DVI to PDF convertor as TeXniscope.

Simpdftex is a simulator for pdfTeX which uses pdfTeX to create DVI  
and dvips to create a PostScript output file that then could be  
converted to PDF with Ghostscript for those that use (La)TeX  
constructs which rely on dvips. Or such ...

--
Greetings

   Pete

   It's not the valleys in life I dread so much as the dips.
                     -- Garfield


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